By Ramzy Baroud When Arab streets exploded with fury, from Tunis to Sanaa, pan-Arabism seemed, then, like a nominal notion. Neither did the so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ use slogans that affirmed its Arab identity, nor did angry Egyptian youth raise the banner proclaiming Arab unity atop the high buildings adjacent to […]
After pouring billions into rebuilding the country following successive Israeli invasions and air raids, the Saudis find that they cannot prevent the Shia from expressing their fury at Riyadh Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices Wednesday 2 March 2016 If you drive from Sunni Muslim Sidon to Shia Muslim southern Lebanon, you […]
Source: BBC For a nation whose king calls himself “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques”, it’s probably not surprising that Saudi Arabia’s “superstars” of social media are clerics. Naturally, that […]
Source: Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found […]
•KSA envoy urges Beirut to retain its ‘Arabness’ Lebanese children in battle gear ride a vehicle during the funeral of a Hezbollah militant in south Lebanon in this January 20, 2015 photo. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned their citizens from travel to Lebanon in view of the hostile […]
Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shi’ite Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television reported on Monday. The 32, including an Iranian and an Afghan, were detained in 2013 sparking expressions of concern among Saudi […]
SAAD AL-DOSARI Published — Tuesday 23 February 2016 As the world governments and security agencies are stepping up their efforts to fight online terrorism, terrorist groups are actively changing and upgrading their tactics. Social media platforms have become their open playgrounds they use to recruit fighters, to communicate between cells, […]
Business Insider Ben Moshinsky SAUDI ARABIA MILITARY PARADE When British Aerospace Engineering, better known as BAE Systems, announced a bumper set of annual results this week, much of that success was down to the lavish spending of the Saudi Arabian air force. The Gulf state took delivery of £800 million […]
Der Spiegel, Interview Conducted By Samiha Shafy and Bernhard Zand 20160219 In an interview, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir expresses his continued support for regime change in Syria and his desire for rebels to be supplied with anti-aircraft missiles that could shift the balance of power in the war. The wait […]
VITAL ASSISTANCE: A Syrian refugee receives medications from a pharmacy run by the Saudi National Campaign to Help Syrian Refugees, in Jordan. (SPA) RASHID HASSAN Published — Thursday 18 February 2016 RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, commended the Kingdom […]
SAEED AL-KHOTANI Published — Wednesday 17 February 2016 ARABNEWS.COM RIYADH: The annual Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Competition for the Memorization of the Holy Qur’an and the […]
Places to Visit:Makkah Madina Jeddah Taif Abwa Badr Uhud Arafat Mina Makkah al-Mukarramah 1 Masjid al-Haraam The Holy Ka’aba. The House of Allah and the birth place of Imam Ali b. Abi Taalib [a] Hajar al-Aswad (The Black Stone) Maqam Ibrahim Hijr Ismail. This was the location of the house […]
FEB 14, 2016 – 18:38 Burkhalter (left) previously attended bilaterial meetings with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. (Keystone) The foreign ministry announced Sunday that Switzerland will represent the interests of Saudi Arabia in Iran, and those of Iran in Saudi […]
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman receives Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter and his delegation at the Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Sunday. (SPA) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 14 February 2016 RIYADH: Switzerland has agreed to handle Saudi Arabia’s consular affairs in Iran, Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir […]
Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Aleppo today is frightening almost beyond description and comprehension. One of the world’s ancient centres of civilisation is bombed and sieged, its inhabitants tortured and starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees do not know if they will […]
Source: The National Interest A meme is gaining traction within American government and media, and it goes like this: The conflicts of the Middle East aren’t about religion. Jihadist violence? […]
Rafael Nash | Friday, February 12, 2016 Five years of conflict have killed more than a quarter-million people, created Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II and allowed the Islamic State to carve out its own territory across parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq. They will continue their […]
OTHMAN MOHAMMAD Published — Friday 12 February 2016 It is a hallmark of depressed people that they give up on hope. Life for these people can seem void of color, so mundane that it is not worth living any more. Any energy spent on the face of earth seems such […]
SHEIKH SALMAN AL-OADAH Published — Friday 12 February 2016 A man reviled Abu Bakr in the presence of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Prophet remained seated. He looked pleased and smiled. He insulted Abu Bakr twice, but Abu Bakr controlled himself and remained silent. He insulted him for […]
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman SPA Published — Friday 12 February 2016 Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, on Thursday led the delegation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia taking part in the meeting of the international coalition […]